Man Sentenced To Life For Repeatedly Raping A 13-Year-Old

Man Sentenced To Life For Repeatedly Raping A 13-Year-Old

The Baltimore man who was convicted of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl in a vacant home has been sentenced to life in prison.

A city court judge Wednesday sentenced Alvin Ray Wright Sr. to four life terms, plus 25 years in prison for the attack.

According to Baltimore State's Attorney's Office, in October 2011, Wright grabbed the girl from behind while she was walking and pulled her into a nearby vacant house and pushed her down. Since there was no floor on the first level of the structure, the victim fell roughly six feet to the basement floor.

When she landed on the basement floor, the victim's eyeglasses fell off and landed in debris. Wright followed. He beat her and threatened to kill her if she made a sound. He then alternated between raping her and ordering her to perform fellatio, three times each. When the victim dropped her cell phone, Wright picked it up, warned her not to contact the police, and then dropped it himself before climbing a wooden board back to the first level of the house and exiting, officials say.

When authorities searched the house, they say they found the victim's cell phone and her lost eyeglasses, among other items. Genetic material recovered during an exam of the victim matched that of Wright in the Maryland DNA database.

After roughly two hours of deliberations, a Baltimore jury convicted Wright in February 2013, of three counts of first-degree rape, three counts of first-degree sex offense, and one count of first-degree assault.

"This was a horrific act of violence, cruelty, and inhumanity committed against one of our young people. For that, this defendant deserves to spend every last minute of his life behind bars. Therefore, I am deeply gratified by today's outcome and hope it will help the victim and her loved ones to achieve a sense of closure," State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein said.